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In 2007, the Ford Foundation co-founded the independent Native Arts and Cultures Foundation by providing a portion of the new foundation's endowment out of the Ford Foundation's own. This decision to repatriate a portion of the Ford Foundation's endowment came after self-initiated research into the Ford Foundation's history of support of Native ...
Darren Walker (born August 28, 1959) [1] is the 10th president of the Ford Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to human welfare, and President of the National Gallery of Art. [2] In June 2020, Walker led the Ford Foundation to issue a $1 billion designated social bond to stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic ...
And in 2019, the foundation’s board appointed Henry Ford III (Edsel II’s son) as a trustee (the first Ford to serve in this capacity since Henry II’s resignation), officially beginning a new ...
The Ford Foundation was established in Michigan in 1936 as a foundation for the family of Henry Ford, who had founded the Ford Motor Company. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] In 1949, after a report by Horace Rowan Gaither , the foundation was reorganized to focus on economic improvements, education, freedom and democracy, human behavior, and world peace.
When Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, exits the building on Jan. 1, 2026, he won’t be looking back on the institution he's led since 2013 and which has shaped his life for longer ...
If there are rock stars in philanthropy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, is one of them. Walker, 64, has been named one of Rolling Stone’s “25 People Shaping the Future ...
In 2016, John Jay College established the Franklin A. Thomas Professorship in Policing Equity with $2.5 million in grants from the Ford Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies. [21] In 2020, he was awarded the Medal for Excellence by Columbia Law School. [22] In 2020, Thomas was portrayed by Jay Ellis on the FX and Hulu series Mrs. America. [23]
Susan Vail Berresford (born 1943) [1] is an American foundation executive. She was the president of the Ford Foundation from 1996-2007. [ 2 ] Since November 2008 she has worked as a philanthropy consultant out of the offices of The New York Community Trust .